
Vatican Warns Against Right to Preemptive War
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, warned that recognizing the right to preemptive war would risk global conflagration, emphasizing the need for a supranational legal framework.
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Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, warned that recognizing the right to preemptive war would risk global conflagration, emphasizing the need for a supranational legal framework.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin expressed the Holy See's perplexity regarding Italy's participation as an observer in the Board of Peace.

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 4 - Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said preventative wars risk plunging the whole world into conflict when asked about the justification for the US and Israeli attack on Iran. "If states were to be recognized as having a right to 'preventive war,' according to their own criteria and without a supranational legal framework, the whole world would risk being set ablaze," Parolin told Vatican News on Wednesday. "This erosion of international law is truly...

The Hungarian President visited the Vatican, where he was received by Pope Leo XIV in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace on Saturday morning. The head of state also held talks with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin, the Holy See Press Office announced. On Saturday morning, Pope Leo XIV received President Tamás Sulyok […] The post President Received by Pope Leo XIV for Private Audience appeared first on Hungary Today.